JESUS WILL NEVER LEAVE US

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.  Amen.”

Matthew 28:18-20 KJV

It doesn’t matter if we are on the mountain top of happiness, or in the valley of sorrow and darkness, Jesus is with us.  He has promised us that He will never leave us.  What a healing balm it is to our weary battle scarred heart to know that Jesus will never leave us and we can trust Him to help us.

I wonder if we have grasped in our heart just how much Jesus loves us and cares about us.  Not only did He walk that long lonely road to Calvary and die on the cross for our sins, He also loves us so much He never leaves us, not even for one minute.  What a precious Saviour we are privileged to know and have!

Every time I think about Jesus staying on that cruel cross and dying for our sins, I realize just how much He loves us.  Jesus could have come down from the cross.  All the nails in the world couldn’t have kept Him on the cross if He had chosen to come down but He stayed on the cross because He loves us.

Rev. Ray Overholt wrote the beautiful and inspiring hymn “Ten Thousand Angels”.  It is one of my favorite hymns about Jesus.  “He could have called ten thousand angels To destroy the world and set Him free.  He could have called ten thousand angels, But He died alone for you and me.”  What a loving Saviour!

Joanne Lowe

July 2, 2015